Yahoo! Mail has been running since 1997, and is one of the world's largest online email services. Standard accounts are available free of charge, and they offer unlimited storage facilities for email. This means every email received by the account can remain stored, with the contents being indexed to make the emails searchable. Yahoo! Mail offers the facility to add a new mail address to your account, with all messages it receives stored in your existing mailbox.

Open the Yahoo! Mail home page in your browser, and sign in using your Yahoo! ID and password. You can also sign in using an existing Facebook or Google account.

Click on "Options" in the top right corner of the Yahoo! Mail interface, and then click "More Options..." from the menu that appears.

Click on "Accounts" from the menu on the left side of the interface, then click on the "Create extra email address" link at the bottom of the "Accounts" page.

Enter your preferred email address in the text box, and click the "Check Availability" button to confirm it is available. If the email address is already in use, you can either choose a variant or select one of the suggested addresses automatically displayed.

Click the "Choose" button to confirm your new mail address and set up the account.

Tip

Once your new mail address has been set up in Yahoo! Mail, select "Set as default sending account" in the "Accounts" section of the interface to make it the default account. This means that all new messages will be sent from this account, unless the original email address is manually selected.

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Gareth Downes-Powell has been writing since 2000. He has contributed to a number of U.K. magazines, including "Web Designer," and has co-written four IT-related books published by Apress and Wrox. He has also worked as a technical editor on a number of titles for U.K. and U.S. publishers. Downes-Powell attended Thanet Technical College, achieving A-Levels in computer science, math and physics.